How In All Wonder Columbus Got Over Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCDDEE AFAFGGGHHDE EIJ AAAKKEEEEHow in all wonder Columbus got over | A |
That is a marvel to me I protest | B |
Cabot and Raleigh too that well read rover | A |
Frobisher Dampier Drake and the rest | B |
Bad enough all the same | C |
For them that after came | C |
But in great Heaven's name | C |
How he should ever think | D |
That on the other brink | D |
Of this huge waste terra firma should be | E |
Is a pure wonder I must say to me | E |
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How a man ever should hope to get thither | A |
E'e'n if he knew of there being another side | F |
But to suppose he should come any whither | A |
Sailing right on into chaos untried | F |
Across the whole ocean | G |
In spite of the motion | G |
To stick to the notion | G |
That in some nook or bend | H |
Of a sea without end | H |
He should find North and South Amerikee | D |
Was a pure madness as it seems to me | E |
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What if wise men had as far back as Ptolemy | E |
Judged that the earth like an orange was round | I |
None of them ever said 'Come along follow | J |
Sail to the West and the East will be found ' | - |
Many a day before | A |
Ever they'd touched the shore | A |
Of the San Salvador | A |
Sadder and wiser men | K |
They'd have turned back again | K |
And that he did not but did cross the sea | E |
Is a pure wonder I must say to me | E |
And that he crossed and that we cross the sea | E |
Is a pure wonder I must say to me | E |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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